Tag: Marc Benioff

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Salesforce achieves 12% growth year-over-year

Salesforce achieves 12% growth year-over-year

Salesforce has presented its Q1 results. Notable highlights include an 11% year-over-year increase in revenue, totaling $8.25 billion, along with a 13% constant currency increase. The GAAP operating margin for the quarter reached 5.0%, while the non-GAAP operating margin stood at 27.6%. The rema... Read more

date11 months ago
Salesforce settles with activist shareholder, does peace return?

Salesforce settles with activist shareholder, does peace return?

Salesforce is engaged in a hefty battle at the board level with several activist shareholders. These believe that Salesforce is performing far below its potential and that things must improve. Revenue and especially profit needs to go up. One of the demands of Elliot Management, the largest activis... Read more

date1 year ago
Salesforce CEO Benioff complains about productivity of new hires

Salesforce CEO Benioff complains about productivity of new hires

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff reportedly questioned the productivity of new employees in an internal Slack message leaked to CNBC. According to CNBC, the CRM giant's chief sent an internal Slack message concerning the productivity of new employees to all staffers last Friday. Benioff suggested th... Read more

date1 year ago
Co-CEO Taylor leaves Salesforce, Benioff stands alone

Co-CEO Taylor leaves Salesforce, Benioff stands alone

Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor is stepping down at the end of January 2023. Marc Benioff will become the sole CEO. The precise reason for Taylor's departure was not disclosed. Salesforce did emphasize that the executive is leaving on his own initiative. Taylor, who has been responsible for Sales... Read more

date1 year ago
Salesforce CEO wants to double revenue by 2026

Salesforce CEO wants to double revenue by 2026

Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff told Bloomberg that the organization intends to acquire more companies in the near future. In addition, Salesforce disclosed an ambitious revenue strategy and plans to further integrate previously acquired companies into its portfolio. At a Q&A with Bloomberg ... Read more

date2 years ago
Bret Taylor appointed as co-CEO at Salesforce as shares dip

Bret Taylor appointed as co-CEO at Salesforce as shares dip

Bret Taylor is now the co-chief executive officer of Salesforce. His announcement to the role came on the same day that the company’s shares dropped in after-hours trading, following lower than expected earnings forecast. Bringing Taylor into the co-CEO role is a big move by the company whose ... Read more

date2 years ago
Apple and Salesforce enter into strategic partnership

Apple and Salesforce enter into strategic partnership

Apple and Salesforce enter into a strategic partnership to combine iOS with Salesforce's customer relationship management system. To do this, Salesforce developers are working with Apple to redesign its app to work well on iOS. The collaboration also gives the Salesforce platform certain new and iOS... Read more

date6 years ago
Co-founder of Salesforce buys Time Magazine

Co-founder of Salesforce buys Time Magazine

After Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post in 2013, there is still a tech billionaire who buys his own magazine. Marc Benioff, co-founder of Salesforce, together with his wife Lynne Time Magazine, took over from Meredith Corp. Before that, the couple paid $190 million. Adweek repo... Read more

date6 years ago